Paul Kengor, author of a book about the 40th US President Ronald Regan cooperation with John Paul II believes that president Donald Trump should disclose the CIA’s information about the Pope’s assassination and call on Putin to explain the role of the Kremlin in this assassination.

“The Moscow secret service has commissioned the Pope’s assassination and it is the time when we should learn the truth – said Paul Kengor, a political science professor at the Grove City College in Pennsylvania, quoted by the US Daily Signal portal.

Prof. Kengor, the author of, among others, the biography of Ronald Regan hopes that through bringing up the role of Moscow in the unsuccessful assassination of John Paul II in 1981, he will persuade President Donald Trump to demonstrate the Kremlin’s responsivity for this assassination, which he calls “the crime of the century.”

In an interview for the Daily Signal, a portal funded by the Washington’s think tank of the Heritage Foundation, Kengor revealed that he saw “super-secret documentations of the American’s secret service” related to the assassination attempt of John Paul II on May 13, 1981 at the St. Peter’s Square in Rome by the Turkish assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.

This information – according to Kengor – confirms the role of the Soviet military intelligence GRU, led by Jurij Andropow (later leader of the USSR); political police; and, KGB secret service, in the assassination of the Holy Father.

In his book, the American political scientist argues that President Ronald Regan and then-CIA director, William Casey, had suspected that the Soviet Union’s leaders had been involved in the assassination attempt.

With Regan’s and the CIA Chief’s suspicion did not agree the American intelligence hierarchy, State Department, and so-called “pragmatists” in the White House.

The CIA director, William Casey, being aware of the political elite’s attitude to President Regan’s suspicions has ordered, as Kengor said in an interview with the Daily Signal, “a truly super-secret investigation which was led by two brave women.”

Beside the President and William Casey only some of the most trusted CIA agents knew about this investigation about the links of the Soviet secret service and the Turkish assassin.

The investigation confirmed the suspicions of the American President and the Polish Pope. President Regan, argued Kergon, at the request of Pope John Paul II, did not disclose the report of the investigation because the Pope feared that a publication of such truly “explosive secrets” would increase tension between Washington and Moscow. Additionally, John Paul II, stated Prof. Kergon, “in His perception, was convinced that people would, rightly, blame Moscow.”

Secret government documents, depending on their importance for the state security may be kept secret for up to 75 years. However, the President has wide powers to disclose them after 25 years of keeping them secret.

Thus, in 2012, then President Barack Obama made the decision to disclose US secret materials on the Katyń crime.

In his newest book “A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Regan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century” Kengor describe the strong ties of the 40th US President Ronald Regan (1981-1989) and John Paul II and their collaboration role in the fall of communism.

Kengor, contributor of the influential conservative think tank Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace in his recently published book highlights the importance of the John Paul II pilgrimage to Poland in 1979. It was “a hit in the center of the communist bloc” - said prof. Kengor during a reading at the Washington’s Heritage Foundation.

- Soon at the highest level of government in Moscow, the decision was made to perform assassination on the Pope – he added.